How many dubs cast a woman as adult Goku?

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How many dubs cast a woman as adult Goku?

Post by Dragon Ball Ireland » Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:37 am

The casting of Masako Nozawa has always received overwhelming praise from Japanese fans and more of a mixed reception among segments of the international fans (at least until Goku Black first appeared).

I say as long as people respect Nozawa despite not being a fan that is perfectly fine, art is subjective at the end of the day.

But how many dubs have featured a woman playing adult Goku?

Off the top of my head I can think of the Macedonian dub (in which I think he's voiced by Hristina Grkova but could be wrong) and the mainland Chinese dub of original Dragon Ball episodes 79-153 (where both kid and adult Goku are played by Liu Yi).

Are there any others?
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Re: How many dubs cast a woman as adult Goku?

Post by MasenkoHA » Fri Mar 21, 2025 12:39 pm

The French dub apparently kept young Goku’s actress for when he became an adult in 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai arc but recast with a male actor for Z

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Re: How many dubs cast a woman as adult Goku?

Post by TheRed259 » Sun Apr 20, 2025 8:04 pm

- Castilian (DBZ TVSP1)
- Catalan (DB eps. 133-153)
- French (DB eps. 133-153 & DBGT ep. 32)
- Greek (DB eps. 133-153 & DBZ eps. 38-39)
- Korean (DB eps. 133-153)
- Mandarin (DB eps. 133-153 & DBS Movie 1)
- Valencian (DB eps. 133-153)

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Re: How many dubs cast a woman as adult Goku?

Post by TheRed259 » Tue May 06, 2025 8:51 am

TheRed259 wrote: Sun Apr 20, 2025 8:04 pm - Castilian (DBZ TVSP1)
- Catalan (DB eps. 133-153)
- French (DB eps. 133-153 & DBGT ep. 32)
- Greek (DB eps. 133-153 & DBZ eps. 38-39)
- Korean (DB eps. 133-153)
- Mandarin (DB eps. 133-153 & DBS Movie 1)
- Valencian (DB eps. 133-153)
+ Indonesian (DB eps. 133-153 but only in the 2015 re-dub by Global TV)

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Re: How many dubs cast a woman as adult Goku?

Post by TheRed259 » Thu Aug 14, 2025 11:39 am

And here are some clips I found with a quick search on YouTube.

Castilian dub (Ana Cremades): DBZ TVSP 1
https://youtu.be/jdPsO9G9nsY?t=1469

Catalan dub (Mònica Padrós): DB eps. 133-153
https://youtu.be/FrOjRzHIZBE?t=203

French dub (Brigitte Lecordier): DB eps. 133-153, DBZ ep. 160 (Kamehameha scream), DBGT ep. 32
https://youtu.be/p4EwuWC_Hss?t=4928

Greek dub (Maria Plakidi): DB eps. 133-153, DBZ eps. 38-39
https://youtu.be/ExRt06qnbZc?t=6

Mandarin dub (Wu Yuling): DBS Movie 1
https://youtu.be/cD9SiSG-MtE?t=157

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Re: How many dubs cast a woman as adult Goku?

Post by chalaheadchala1989 » Fri Aug 15, 2025 10:52 am

Russian voiceover (2x2) - Dragon Ball Super

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Re: How many dubs cast a woman as adult Goku?

Post by Saiya6Cit » Fri Aug 15, 2025 10:25 pm

In Mexican dub, it is done by Laura Torres, a female but only for kid Goku. Including DBGT and Daima.
She also dubs kid Gohan.

I think a female voice could work for adult Goku in other cultures but not in Mexican culture because fighting is related with being very macho (manly) and the people who find out about the Japanese female Goku dislike that fact very much. At least every one at work and back in the day people at school they do.

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Re: How many dubs cast a woman as adult Goku?

Post by PowerPhantom245 » Mon Aug 18, 2025 12:59 am

TheRed259 wrote: Sun Apr 20, 2025 8:04 pm - Castilian (DBZ TVSP1)
- Catalan (DB eps. 133-153)
- French (DB eps. 133-153 & DBGT ep. 32)
- Greek (DB eps. 133-153 & DBZ eps. 38-39)
- Korean (DB eps. 133-153)
- Mandarin (DB eps. 133-153 & DBS Movie 1)
- Valencian (DB eps. 133-153)
Didn't know there were that many.
I thought Japan was the only country that had female voice actor for adult Goku.
Interesting that it's only original series and not too many for later series.

It appears there's no English dub with female voice actor; even Big Green and Speedy dub were male.
Granted, it's hard to imagine any female voice actor to perform adult Goku in English.

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Re: How many dubs cast a woman as adult Goku?

Post by Jord » Mon Aug 18, 2025 5:05 pm

TheRed259 wrote: Thu Aug 14, 2025 11:39 am And here are some clips I found with a quick search on YouTube.

Catalan dub (Mònica Padrós): DB eps. 133-153
https://youtu.be/FrOjRzHIZBE?t=203
Never heard her before. She sounds great.

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Re: How many dubs cast a woman as adult Goku?

Post by TheRed259 » Thu Aug 21, 2025 7:44 pm

I found a clip from the Korean dub as well:
https://youtu.be/woaHf-UKakc?t=42

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